A few Buddhists on Twitter have joined in the amplification effort to counter some of the mainstream media’s Islamophobia as well. This includes retweeting factual information, blogging on what is going on, publically questioning that which is questionable on Twitter or in comments or wherever it occurs, searching for information/analysis/photos/videos/etc and posting, verifying sources, tagging relevant material with the #Jan25 and #Egypt tags and similar efforts.

I’ll add to this post if any more come up.

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The Islamist Menace by Petteri discusses common misconceptions around groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and outlining some of the political nuances

The Crackdown is a further comment on up to the minute events in Egypt by Petteri

I’ve written a post on the role of poetic slogans as they are used to rally morale in revolutionary situations Poetry as an Instrument of Revolution to provide some cultural background and points of commonality between the Egyptian situation and those of us outside

As well recently, with reports of the arrest, detention and release of the blogger who calls himself Sandmonkey, whose blog account was suspended effectively silencing him, which I reported here Sandmonkey’s blog post , numerous people in the Buddhist online community have reposted his last blogpost before the arrest. Zen Buddhist teachers James Ford or Providence Rhode Island and Jay Rinsen Weik of Toledo Ohio as well as community member Petteri from Helsinki Finland have reposted that last blogpost as a gesture of solidarity. Others have also posted it to facebook and forums.